New York City and Manhattan Condo, Coop and Apartment Owners and Renters - 6 Easy Steps to Optimizing your Cooling and Heating or Boiler Solution

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New York City and Manhattan Condo, Coop and Apartment Owners and Renters:
6 Easy Steps to Optimizing Your Cooling and Heating or Boiler Solution

If you’re an owner in the Big Apple, you know how important your cooling/heating system was when making your choice to buy. In the throw of closing did you put your worries to the side for a moment but then discovered that the boiler efficiency or other source wasn’t quite up to snuff? You’re not alone. In many other New York buildings, including a prominent one in Northern Manhattan’s Inwood Washington Heights area, cooling and heating is one of its biggest concerns because it still operates with the old water source heat pump system.

1.KNOW YOUR SOLUTION

The water source heat pump is one of three solutions possible that New Yorkers have available to them in the Manhattan real estate market. The other two are ductless and compressor respectively. Water source heat pumps run on water and require a tower on the roof, ductless have a unit that is installed outside your window (similar to an air conditioning unit) and compressor systems need a communal compressor (electric) on the roof. In short water source systems need water, ductless require outside units and compressors need a shared electric device.

2. GET NEW - OR UPGRADE WHAT YOU HAVE

Depending on the bylaws of your condo or coop, you may or may not be able to change over your system. There are pros and cons of each – water needs water – which may or may not be included in common charges. Ductless may not be allowed and are considered by some to be an exterior building eye sore. And the compressor based method of cooling/heating involves electric charges that could or could not be included in common charges. Once you are familiar with the details of what you have in your home and whether or not you can change or upgrade, it’s time to take action.

3. ACTION STEPS

Explore your options in depth. There are many ways to skin the proverbial cool and heat cat. You could hire a licensed cooling/heating expert, a licensed contracting expert and a licensed electric expert all separately. Or, you could work with a company like RBdesignConstruction.com Inc.. that has licensed experts in all three areas under one roof. Talk with your expert or experts about the specific facets of your situation because each circumstance has its own unique problems and challenges.

4. FACE THE CHALLENGES HEAD ON – BEING EDUCATED AND FORWARNED IS FOREARMED

Be very careful who you trust to help you install or upgrade your cooling/heating. Make certain they are licensed and check in depth with the bylaws of your coop or condo because unforeseeable problems can and often do arise once the job is started, especially if you haven’t done your homework. And if you are faced with surprises you will also inevitably be confronted with more costs. For example, in the aforementioned New York City Northern Manhattan condo building there were very strict rules about changing anything having to do with the piping. Insurance was needed to make changes, paperwork required to be approved and so on. And sadly in this building there hadn’t been the foresight to have installed the pipes originally in the most effective manner.

But thanks to the ingenuity of RBdesignConstruction.com whose motto is “Get it right the first time” they came up with a true “design solution” by realizing that rather than having to disrupt the pipes which had been put in the building in a very odd place – they expanded the scope of the heating/cooling control center and made it able to also function as a closet. In other words, necessity was the mother of invention and costs were actually saved by not having to move the pipe as well as getting extra closet space in the process! And if you live in the Big Apple you know how important closet space is to us New Yorkers!.

5. GET A PACKAGE PRICE

Be sure to get a package price when you make your cooling and heating arrangements. Also, get in writing the costs involved and price total. The way RBdesignConstruction.com works is that they’ll come into your location and for a nominal fee, which is later deducted from the price of doing the job if you decide to go with them, they’ll create a detailed proposal with a package price. Needless to say, the package price is only possible if R.B. has access to inspecting all aspects of the equipment and locations involved with your current cooling/heating system. And because prices are based on current economic conditions and equipment costs, there will usually be a time frame in which the job must be be acted upon to keep it at the special pricing.

A tip if you really want to get the best price and quality is to call RBdesignConstruction.com only after you’ve gotten quotes from others so you can find out for yourself first-hand the competitive difference of R.B. in which they will probably see things more clearly than the others did and tailor a solution much more specificly to your unique needs - at a very fair price.

6. OFF TO THE RACES

Then it’s off to the races as your cooling and heating solution is implemented. Now wasn’t that easy?!